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cuckoo, the latter unexpectedly early (April 

 11), since Mr. Chapman had recorded it as 

 arriving at Gainesville at a date sixteen days 

 later than this. 



I did not repeat my visit to Lake Brad- 

 ford ; but, not to give up the ivory-bill too 

 easily, and because I must walk some- 

 where, I went again as far as the palmetto 

 scrub. This time, though I still missed the 

 woodpecker, I was fortunate enough to come 

 upon a turkey. In the thickest part of the 

 wood, as I turned a corner, there she stood 

 before me in the middle of the road. She 

 ran along the horse-track for perhaps a rod, 

 and then disappeared among the palmetto 

 leaves. 



Meanwhile, two or three days before, 

 while returning from St. Mark's, whither I 

 had gone for a day on the river, I had 

 noticed from the car window a swamp, or 

 baygall, which looked so promising that I 

 went the very next morning to see what it 

 would yield. I had taken it for a cypress 

 swamp, but it proved to be composed mainly 

 of oaks ; very tall but rather slender trees, 

 heavily draped with hanging moss and 

 standing in black water. Among them were 



